Cooper on PA

[Max B. Sawicky]

Anybody could write something criticizing the "entire
left" (which consists of what, by the way?). Plenty
of lefts might criticize Chomsky too.  One
could, for instance, question whether Hitchens has
'defected,' since he has yet to repudiate his former
work (as Horowitz clearly has), and since he continues
to elevate such subversive themes as Henry Kissinger
as war criminal.  You said Cooper would be writing for
Horowitz's magazine, but I bet you wouldn't uphold that
as the criterion.  He might end up taking a 'straight'
job with a commercial outlet, but that doesn't mean
much either.  We all have to eat.

Bottom line is you probably realize he is unlikely
to strike a pose of absolute forsaking the left and
becoming his opposite, like Horowitz or that dreadful
Marvin Olasky.  But unless you're willing to put your
money on an explicit act like this, you're just 
hyperventilating.

mbs

I'll take the bet, but I think we will have difficulty agreeing on the
definition of "defection." This could take a year or several years. He's
starting to move in that direction with the cheap Chomsky bashing and
the swipe at Indymedia (which get more hits than The Nation website).
Perhaps the thing that will push him over will be his realization later
this year that the rest of the left sees him as a traitor, for want of a
better word. What will he do when he loses his paying gig at Pacifica?
We all know how politics works. He backed the wrong horse in the
revolution. He has to pack and move out of the palace.

Definition? Perhaps a clear article that attacks not just an element on
the left, but the entire "left."

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